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		| bucheon bum 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:54 pm    Post subject: Lost Cause: Yemeni woman running for Presidency |   |  
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				| Earlier this week, a Yemeni woman decided to run for President, with the Presidential election being held next year.  If she wins, I'd suggest to anyone going to hell to bring a parka with them. 
 First Woman candidate for Presidency in Yemen
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		| Ya-ta Boy 
 
 
 Joined: 16 Jan 2003
 Location: Established in 1994
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:39 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Has this happened in the Arab world before? I know it has in the Moslem world of course, but in the Arab world? |  | 
	
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		| bucheon bum 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:11 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I don't know.  Open presidential elections themselves are quite rare in the Arab world.  She probably isn't the first though; if that were the case, then I think the article would have mentioned it. |  | 
	
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		| Pligganease 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:56 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Hey, 
 In the "most freedom loving country in the world" there has never been a female President.  Why would it be different there?
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		| bucheon bum 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:51 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| yeah, i thought about making a comment about women in US politics but I failed to come up with some witty observation. |  | 
	
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